Hi Eric, That's very interesting about being able to use Google Drive. I think the relevant property about the kind of outside network resources that you use, and how it might impact your Mac Mini's Finder busy message, is what happens with the file syncing and updating of information. With Dropbox, and also with Google Drive, there are advanced menu options for controlling what you sync and the syncing speeds for upload and download. I've never experimented with these, but this basically establishes the amount of network bandwidth you might be using with your various file operations. I suspect that this is what is contributing to amount of Finder activity that you're seeing without a monitor. In the meantime, you've provided a useful piece of information for other Mini users who want to use a file transfer facility.
I'll give you a link to a recent Lifehacker article that compares Google Drive and Dropbox, and describes the differences in syncing speed. There's also an interesting comment about being able to use Google's OCR capabilities on scanned document files. I'm not sure whether all the features that are mentioned are accessible. • "File Syncing Faceoff: Dropbox vs. Google Drive" by Whitson Gordon, April 24, 2012 http://lifehacker.com/5904731/desktop-file-syncing-faceoff-dropbox-vs-google-drive Hope you are otherwise enjoying your Mini. Cheers, Esther On Jul 23, 2012, at 9:11 AM, Eric Caron wrote: > Hi Esther and others, > > the blog post from John is very helpful and makes me feel better that > once I find a monitor I'll have a nicely functioning mini. One interesting > thing about the observation concerning outside network resources. I have > this problem with Dropbox but not with google drive. > > This is helpful as I can use google drive as a easy way to transfer files to > and from my mini just like dropbox. i'll do this until I find a monitor. I > do rely on Dropbox so this is only a temporary solution. > > Eric Caron > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
